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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Hi,</p>
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Currently experiencing some inconsistent behaviour with the API in which fetching via the browser gives a response,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">but my own app ('MapThePaths', part of a project intended to help map footpaths and edit designation tags in the UK) frequently hangs waiting for a response.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">MapThePaths uses the osmapi (Tobias Zwick) to fetch data.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Is there any reason currently why the API might be responding to standard web browsers but not custom apps?</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">FWIW my app should be reporting itself as "MapThePaths Android app" and I have just (around 16:35-16:40 UK time) made three unsuccessful requests with the bbox:
<span> -0.7295872761598865,51.09355911139382,-0.7005316007485753,51.11122494429744.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>Sometimes, however, my app is retrieving data from OSM successfully (perhaps 60-70% of the time).</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>No exception is thrown - just looks like a timeout.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>I also observed similar behaviour 'in the field' yesterday afternoon when I was using the app in the countryside. The app could talk to my own API on mapthepaths.org.uk successfully but could not communicate with
the OSM API.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>Is this simply related to the issues with the OSM API at the moment related to moving to another server?<br>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>Thanks,</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0"><span>Nick<br>
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